I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.

We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.